Although in the past pig production has been an important export
industry, today it is only concerned with the domestic market. It is an industry which has not benefitted from direct government
subvention, as has been ...

Farming is an industry which depends on the work, decisions and
competence of a large number of individual farmers, each of them running
their own farm business. These business units vary widely in the resources
at their ...

Over a very long period of time, New Zealand's structural
policy has devoted a low priority to the export sector. Up till the
1960's, New Zealand seemingly got away with the strategy for the
agricultural segment of the ...

Some of the limelight has shifted in the past decade from the pastoral industry to the horticultural industry, but a
substantial contribution to overseas earnings is still made by the pastoral sector. Profitability, from ...

A good deal of research into the likely future structure of the New Zealand economy has been carried out in the Agricultural Economics Research Unit. The aim has been to provide realistic quantitative sectoral targets or ...

This Discussion Paper presents some views on the relationship between the Acts under which the producer boards operate and the Commerce Act, 1986. In particular, the discussion reviews the interpretation of the powers ...

In recent years, some 12,000 acres in New Zealand has been used for green pea production for processing. The greater proportion of this land is in Hawkes Bay, but commercial crops are also grown in Nelson, Marlborough, ...

This paper examines the effect of real net farm residual income, inflation,
and the real interest rate on the movement of real farmland prices during 1970 to 1997 using a parsimonious error correction model. The empirical ...

New Zealand stone fruit constitutes a multi-million dollar industry. Possibly because the industry exports very little in either value or quantity terms little research work has been completed in this industry. Little is ...

This discussion paper covers the development of rational polices for agricultural trade between New Zealand and Japan. The paper includes the full text of the following papers: J. G. Pryde, Trends in Agricultural Protectionism ...